"Hahaha! I knew there was sothing wrong with the stuff that brat makes!"
Looking at Lefiya lying unconscious on the bed, Loki, as the patron goddess of the Familia, actually burst into delighted laughter.
Of course, such an undignified act was quickly punished by the green-haired elf beside her, who smacked her on the head.
"Loki. Compared to the Heroic Smith, you should be more concerned about the Thousand Elf's health first."
Thousand Elf — that was Lefiya's alias.
From that artistic alias alone, it was clear that even the gods were quite fond of her.
"Yes, yes, I know, Mama Riveria… Ow!"
Loki was struck by Riveria's hand chop once again for saying sothing unnecessary.
Although Loki loved pranks, when it ca to the children of her Familia, she did have serious monts as well.
After examining the unconscious Lefiya, Loki nodded with exaggerated seriousness.
"Rather, an unconscious elf girl is the most precious treasure in the world. No matter how much you fuss over her, she won't resist—"
"Loki."
Under Riveria's smile, which carried a clear killing intent, Loki finally obediently revealed the results of her examination.
"Lefiya's body is fine. Everything is normal."
"The reason she fainted… is because the magical energy inside her body is too abundant."
"Her magical energy is too abundant?"
Riveria showed a doubtful expression.
As Nine Hell and Orario's strongest mage, she had never heard of such a thing.
In her experience, mages only fainted because they had exhausted their magical energy.
"To put it simply, Lefiya's body, as a vessel, isn't enough to contain the excess magical energy."
"So next, I need to take off her clothes first…"
Seeing Riveria about to raise her staff, which was heavy enough to be used as a polearm, Loki quickly spoke.
"I'm going to update Lefiya's Status! Don't think of like so creepy old man!"
"As for that latter evaluation, I reserve judgnt."
After hearing Loki's explanation, Riveria temporarily gave up on stopping her.
However, those words also made a faint guess appear in her heart.
"Could it be… that the item she received from the Heroic Smith caused a breakthrough in her Status?"
"It had better be that."
Loki snorted coldly and narrowed her foxlike eyes.
"If anything happens to Lefiya, I'll definitely make him pay!"
"Was it not you who sent the children of the Familia to trouble that boy in the first place?"
"…Riveria, am I such a shady goddess in your eyes?"
"I rely heard what you said to those children."
"But putting that aside, let look at Lefiya's Status first."
Watching Loki shalessly change the subject, Riveria sighed helplessly.
As the vice-captain of the Familia, she usually handled many troubleso matters within the Familia — and more than half of them were sses caused by Loki.
Over ti, rather than a vice-captain, she had beco more like the Familia's parental figure.
Even Ais had been raised under her watch since childhood, almost like a daughter.
She had heard that Ais had been getting rather close to the Hephaestus Familia boy who had received the alias Heroic Smith.
"Sigh. They're all troubleso children, no matter which side I look at."
"And Loki too. Can't she be a little more mature and steady—"
Just as Riveria thought that, Loki suddenly let out a monkey-like screech.
"Eeeeeh?! Ooooooh?!"
"Loki, have you forgotten how to speak Common?"
"Not quite."
Loki quickly cald down from her shock, though disbelief still remained on her face.
She handed the record sheet in her hand to Riveria and said aningfully,
"After you see this, your reaction will probably be even stronger than mine."
"This is… Lefiya's Status?"
Riveria lowered her head and scanned the sheet.
Generally speaking, every adventurer's Status was confidential information.
Except for the patron god of one's Familia, it was not sothing easily shown to others.
However, Riveria and Lefiya had a close relationship, and with Riveria's position, it was not a serious issue even if she saw it.
As elven royalty, Riveria also had the right to command Lefiya, who was of the sa race.
She simply did not want to rely on privileges brought by her royal bloodline.
"…"
Riveria's gaze swept quickly across every Basic Ability.
"Her Magic attribute among her Basic Abilities actually broke past 1000 and reached SS rank?!"
"So the limit of Basic Abilities isn't 999 after all."
"And…"
Finally, Riveria's gaze stopped on the Magic section of the Status sheet.
Familia mbers who received Falna could possess at most three spells.
In reality, because awakening magic required complex factors such as talent, luck, and bloodline, an ordinary adventurer awakening even one spell was already incredibly fortunate.
It was rare for all three Magic slots to be filled.
Only magical races like elves could easily master multiple spells through their innate potential and training.
Lefiya's Magic slots had already been filled.
They were Arcs Ray, Fusillade Fallarica, and Elf Ring, the spell that had earned her the alias Thousand Elf.
But now, at the bottom of her Magic section, there was another blank space.
"She not only broke through the upper limit of her Magic Basic Ability, she even gained an empty Magic slot?!"
As a mage herself, Riveria naturally understood what this ant.
Although Lefiya was currently only Lv.3, her potential… might even surpass Riveria herself, who was Lv.6.
A mont later, Riveria seed to make a decision. She turned and walked toward the exit of the Familia headquarters.
"Riveria, what are you going to do?"
Loki's voice ca from behind her.
"The children of our Familia caused the Heroic Smith a great deal of trouble today. Naturally, I need to go over and apologize."
Riveria answered as if it were only natural.
"In addition, I'm also very curious about what happened to Lefiya."
"Oh, since you're going anyway, why not say hello to Hephaestus for ?"
"Hehe… When it cos to apologizing, it only has aning if you go in person."
"Tch… I know, I know. Honestly."
...
However, when Riveria arrived at Adventurer's Ho, all she learned was that Drake was not in the shop.
"He has things to do all day today. He probably went to explore the Dungeon, right?"
Hestia looked Riveria up and down, taking in her royal elven attire, and said warily,
"Why is Loki Familia's Nine Hell looking for my Drake?"
"Your…"
Riveria could not help correcting her.
"If I rember correctly, the Heroic Smith is a mber of the Hephaestus Familia."
"So what? Hephaestus and I are as close as sisters. She won't care about a little thing like that!"
After thinking for a mont, Riveria decided not to continue on such a aningless topic.
"…In any case, I apologize for the trouble we caused this morning."
"Oh…"
Seeing Riveria put aside the airs of a Lv.6 adventurer and apologize seriously, even the petite goddess could not find anything to criticize.
She could only mutter, "If you want to apologize, you have to say it to him in person for it to count."
Hearing that familiar wording, Riveria froze for a mont, then gave a wry smile.
She had not expected that there would be a day when she would be lectured by soone else using the sa words she had used to lecture Loki.
"If I can et him, I will apologize to him personally."
"Do you know when he'll be at the shop?"
"Hmm… At night, probably? He usually cos to the shop around that ti for a while to restock the goods."
"I understand. Thank you for your guidance, Lady Hestia."
Riveria nodded lightly and turned to leave.
That left the petite goddess in the shop, lost in thought.
"Drake really caused a huge commotion this ti."
"Even the Nine Hell of the elven royal family couldn't sit still."
"But…"
"This is exactly the kind of treatnt a hero deserves."
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